The Half-Breed

1916. USA. Directed by Allan Dwan. Adapted from a story by Bret Harte. With Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Sam De Grasse. This was a departure from Fairbanks’s comedy roles and a plea for racial tolerance only a year after D. W. Griffith’s incendiary masterpiece, The Birth of a Nation. Approx. 60 min.

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